[libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] qemu: remove unnecessary setting of tap device online state

Sascha Silbe silbe at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 25 08:55:39 UTC 2016


Dear Laine,

Laine Stump <laine at laine.org> writes:

> The linkstate setting of an <interface> is only meant to change the
> online status reported to the guest system by the emulated network
> device driver in qemu, but when support for auto-creating tap devices
> for <interface type='ethernet'> was added in commit 9717d6, a chunk of

Typo: the commit id is 9c17d6. Including the title of the commit would
have made locating it easier. At first I thought it wasn't even upstream
yet.

(Haven't looked at the actual changes, was mostly interested in what
released versions were affected.)

Sascha
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